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National parks will not be availed for communal land purposes: Shifeta

Contributed by NAMPA.

WINDHOEK, 15 SEP (NAMPA) - No portions of national parks land will be turned into communal land, Minister of Environment and Tourism, Pohamba Shifeta said on Friday.
Speaking at the inauguration of the ministry’s dog unit for wildlife protection and law enforcement at Waterberg in the Otjozondjupa Region, Shifeta said national parks are protected State land and cannot be de-gazetted to become communal land.
Namibia has 20 State run-protected areas covering about 17 per cent of the country's la ...

 

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